V0.2 Progress Update #2 (Patreon)

Renders, renders and more renders. I have so many renders done. Usually when making the game, I'll render and write a scene fairly concurrently. Sometimes I'll do a bunch of renders, then do the writing once I've got most of the renders done or I'll do the opposite and do a bunch of writing and make renders after.

This time though, I've just not been in a writing mood recently, so I've got 4 scenes rendered with absolutely no writing done. Thankfully, the rendering is the slow part, so once I start writing it shouldn't take too long to get all of those scenes finished. A couple are story scenes and a couple are minor scenes for the around the house events.

One of my goals for Episode 2 is to make the world feel much more worth exploring and spending time in. I want there to be loads of content so if the player ever finds themselves without a story scene to continue on a particular timeslot, there's lots of interesting ways to pass the time, rather than just napping or hitting skip time on the map.

As for when V0.2 will be available, I don't currently know. The first beta will be soon, once I've got this writing done, but beyond that I don't know the current update schedule. The reason why being that we're sorting out all our plans for the Spanish wedding ceremony, which means I'll be super busy in the next few weeks, as well as completely MIA for a few days for the ceremony itself.

On top of that, as if that wasn't stressful enough, we've also just reserved a puppy. While extremely exciting, it's also very stressful and until it settles in and calms down and gets some basic training, it will be a big distraction to trying to work. Obviously I'll try and keep to my usual schedule, but if V0.2 is delayed, that will be why!